The myth of the Jewish race / Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai Wing.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- Penn Provenance:
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- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Physical Description:
- x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [1975]
- Summary:
- Compiles historical, psychological, and genetic evidence relating to past and contemporary Jewish populations and intra-Jewish ethnic differences, concluding that there is no such thing as a distinct and separate Jewish race.
- Contents:
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- Preface
- Introduction
- Racism and slavery
- Racism and anti-Semitism
- Pre-racist anti-Semitism
- Race as a genetic concept
- Race and culture
- Part I. Historical. Four views on the Jewish "race"
- Jews constitute one single race
- Jews comprise two distinct races
- Jews comprise three races
- Jews are not a separate racial group
- An excursus into statistics
- Introductory remarks
- Benjamin of Tudela
- Medieval Spain
- England
- France
- Italy
- Germany
- Hungary
- Bohemia
- Poland, Lithuania, Russia
- Sum totals
- Conclusion
- Proselytism
- Extent and evaluation
- In Biblical times
- The Second Commonwealth and Hellenism
- The Talmudic Period: Palestine and Babylonia
- In pre-Islamic Arabia and North Africa
- Under Islam
- The Khazars
- Early medieval Christendom
- Spain and Portugal
- Sweden
- Poland
- Russia
- Intermarriage and interbreeding
- In the Second Commonwealth
- In Talmudic times
- Under early Christianity
- In the Muslim world
- Medieval Europe
- Modern times
- Slavery and concubinage
- In Biblical and Talmudic times
- In the Muslim east
- In Muslim and Christian Spain
- In the Ashkenazi world
- Jus Primae Noctis
- Part II. Psychological. The Jewish mind
- The problem of comparative intelligence
- Jewish general intelligence
- Jews and genius
- Special talents
- Character traits
- Part III. Genetic. Morphological traits
- Height
- Hair and eye color
- Nose
- Cephalic index
- Hand clasping and arm folding
- Fingerprint patterns
- Conclusions
- Looking Jewish
- Criteria for classification of races
- Jewish inbreeding and its effects
- The "Jewish" blood: ABO
- The "Jewish" blood: other blood groups
- Serum and red cell proteins
- Haptoglobin (Hp
- Group-Specific component (Gc)
- Serum Pseudocholinesterase (PCE)
- Red cell acid phosphatase (PGM1)
- Adenosine Deaminase (ADA)
- Adenylate Kinase (AK)
- Red cell Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase (GPT)
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency
- PTC taste sensitivity
- Color blindness
- Genetic distance between Jewish and non-Jewish groups
- "Jewish" diseases
- Rare inherited diseases unusually frequent or infrequent among Ashkenazi Jews
- Inherited diseases found in Oriental and Sephardi Jews
- Common inherited diseases: Thalassemia
- Common diseases with a genetic component
- Conclusions to Part III
- APPENDIX: Diagrams and tables
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
- Picture supplement following p. 226.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1976
- National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1976
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996. Myth of the Jewish race.
- ISBN:
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- OCLC:
- 979249
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